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Thursday 20 August 2026
AMEC profit jumps 300%: China chip equipment maker expands beyond etch with US$520M plan
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. China (AMEC) posted a 300% surge in first-half 2026 profit and announced a CNY3.5 billion (US$520 million) capacity expansion, accelerating...
Thursday 20 August 2026
Jusung, PSK China sales plunge over 40% amid China's chip self-sufficiency drive

Jusung Engineering and PSK each lost more than 40% of their China revenue in 2025. The similarity ends there.

Thursday 20 August 2026
Samsung to break ground on KRW6 trillion Onyang HBM packaging plant in September
Samsung Electronics will break ground in September on a KRW6 trillion (approx. US$4.31 billion) HBM production and advanced-packaging facility at its Onyang campus in Asan, South Korea,...
Thursday 20 August 2026
Analysis: Why Marvell's US$120B AI chip deal with Google is really a hedge against Nvidia and Broadcom
Marvell Technology is set to deepen its role in Google's AI infrastructure through an expanded agreement to develop custom chips, in a deal that could generate roughly US$120 billion...
Thursday 20 August 2026
Samsung repays 20 trillion won SDC loan early as memory demand surges

Samsung Electronics fully repaid a KRW20 trillion unsecured loan from Samsung Display ahead of schedule in the second quarter of 2026,...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Vietnam eyes city upgrades for Samsung hub Bac Ninh and Quang Ninh
Vietnam is considering plans to turn Bac Ninh, a major Samsung Electronics manufacturing hub, and Quang Ninh into centrally administered cities as the country builds out its northern...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Commentary: Tsinghua Unigroup distances itself from failed US$15 billion Dongguan chip-cloud project

Tsinghua Unigroup's former "chip-to-cloud" expansion strategy unraveled after a debt crisis in 2020 and subsequent bankruptcy restructuring...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Taiwanese firms' China investment returns hit record high on AI boom

Driven by surging global demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC), Taiwanese listed companies achieved record combined profits...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Samsung, SK hynix build KRW278 trillion cash pile on AI memory surge

Samsung Electronics and SK hynix have amassed a combined KRW278 trillion (approx. US$196.9 billion) in cash equivalents and short-term...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
South Korea looks beyond chips and AI with bets on SMRs, fusion and quantum

South Korea is looking beyond semiconductors and artificial intelligence for its next generation of strategic industries, naming seven...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Hanmi Semiconductor scales up bonding capacity with US$91.4 million plant buy amid AI packaging boom

Amid a global shortage of AI semiconductor equipment, Hanmi Semiconductor announced on August 18 that it will acquire a factory owned...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
US pushes South Korea to prioritize memory chip investment in trade talks
US officials have pressed South Korea to make memory chip manufacturing its first strategic investment in the US, according to a report cited by JoongAng Daily. The claim...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
AI pays off for 80% of Taiwan enterprises — but data gaps loom, study found

Data analytics firm Dun & Bradstreet released its "Taiwan Enterprise AI Momentum Index" for the third quarter of 2026, revealing...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Huawei Hubble builds China's InP optical chip stack for the AI interconnect era
Huawei's semiconductor investment arm is seeing an earlier optical-chip strategy line up with the AI infrastructure boom. Since 2019, Hubble Technology Investment Co. has backed a...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Asus lifts server outlook, Supermicro orders hit record highs as Nvidia gears up to beat guidance

Concerns over whether the AI surge is a bubble continue to linger. However, recent indicators—from Nvidia's latest capital initiatives...